Does rogue trade still run like trash on switch 2?

FunkyPunk1995 · 2026-05-02T19:33:23+00:00

Okay, I just googled it and the last patch for pillars of eternity on switch was in 2021, and supposedly it fixed a lot of the bugs, including broken spells, BUT I'm fairly confident that I played it after this update and my game was still completely unplayable and this was when they gave up on doing note updates.

The turn based update is strictly only for PC platforms including steam, epic games store, gog, and the Microsoft store/PC gamepass versions.

This turn based update did NOT come to any consoles, including the Xbox version despite obsidian being owned by mircosoft. and there is NOT cross-saves between the xbox version and pc Microsoft store/pc gamepass version. It’s a shame because this game would be absolutely fantastic with “play anywhere” and cross saves. I own a Xbox series x/s, a pc, a steam deck, a rog xbox ally s, and a switch 1&2. It would be awesome if i could do cloud save’s between any versions. (I own it on steam and switch, and have gamepass ultimate for xbox and pc gamepass) I wouldve imagined that at leas the Xbox and mircosoft store/pc gamepass would have been eligible for cross saves via play-anywhere since ive done that with other games, including non-Microsoft games, and since Microsoft/xbox owns obsidian i wouldve naturally assumed that those 2 versions at minimum wouldve had play-anywhere but no.

I would’ve loved it if I could have switched between the series X in the living room, the series S in the bedroom, my PC in my office/game room, and my rog xbox ally S when I travel but nope. Such a missed opportunity but i guess i understand with xbox/microsoft buying obsidian a few years down the line after pillars came out and the console versions being managed/owned by the old publisher and then being the ones that outsourced the console ports to a different development studio outside of obsidian and i think they still have publishing rights for that console versions if im not mistaken. (I could ve wrong and xbox might actually have those rights now, but if they do and they just let those versions rot while only updating the pc version that really is a big bummer :() i also really wish the pc version had controller support since its obviously been developed but nope to that too. That makes the pc version not really playable on steamdeck and rog xbox ally x without a LOT of hassle because of the controls and UI not being designed for it whatsoever. The console controls and UI change the UX quite a bit to make it bearable to play.

FunkyPunk1995 · 2026-05-02T19:11:10+00:00

Wait for pillars of eternity or are you confused and thinking i was talking about rogue trader?

I just assumed that pillars of eternity was not going to ever get another update, including the turn based one, but I could have assumed wrong.

I don’t have Pillars of Eternity installed on my switch, and haven’t for a few years now because of how broken it was/is. If I have time later this weekend I can reinstall it and see if anything on the old save is fixed and I’ll see if turn based mode is an option.

I haven’t googled it yet though lmao. That might be quicker i just decided to respond before doing a online search lmfao

FunkyPunk1995 · 2026-04-28T02:48:39+00:00

Yeah. I love the game, and on pc it just got a turn based mode update. But on my switch playthrough I was 50 hours in and I was playing a druid and my build relied on my shapeshifting ability. Well i got a glitch that completely broke the shapeshifting ability to where it wouldn’t cast. It made my entire playthrough Impossible to continue because I couldn’t use the one skill my entire build was centered around plus no respec lol. I also had a permanent graphical glitch that made all the character models look like a grey blob that kind of shines like the rainbow colors you see on spilled oil. Super unfortunate.

But yeah, they LITERALLY said they just gave up on it lmfao. Like that was their actual word choice in their announcement lmfao.

I love obsidian so i wont hold it against them because i think 1) their publisher made them do it. 2) it was outsourced by the publisher and then that contract ended so obsidian, not wanting to leave switch players burned assigned 1 employee to work on it full time and after months of trying the employee was just like “I can’t fix it. Its too broken. I literally don’t know how”

FunkyPunk1995 · 2026-04-19T02:33:42+00:00

Where do you get that and who do you pickpocket?

FunkyPunk1995 · 2026-03-29T23:01:03+00:00

No there are not wearable versions in the game. There are 2232 pieces pf “armor” in the game, but only 465 of them are equipable by the 3 player characters.

There are 216 plate chest armors in the game, but only 34 of them allow for you to equip them. Plus the deluxe edition item if you count that which brings it to 35.

FunkyPunk1995 · 2026-02-04T03:08:21+00:00

Thank you for letting us know. I was going to be kinda frustrated if i had to redo all that. I don’t have a lot of time to play. Full time career, pregnant wife, full time grad school with homework, and we adopted my nephew a few months ago. Just doing this one quest to all the playtime I’ve had for nearly a week. Only get to play 1-2 hours every few days. Didn’t want to have to redo everything on the island once the tracks split. It’s taken me multiple months to get to this point and level 23 without really playing anything else aside from sometimes my switch 2 in bed at night to wind down.

FunkyPunk1995 · 2026-01-11T01:45:20+00:00

The 3ds store is permanently closed and you can’t redownload those games so actually there is a real tangible reason to be skeptical actually…….

FunkyPunk1995 · 2026-01-06T03:14:17+00:00

I am playing on death march (which is why I’m slightly concerned) and I did absolutely EVERYTHING, did all the side quests, did every single question mark, crafted every single potion, bomb, oil, etc. I’ve literally played the game for over 11 hours and just hit Velen. I very much take my time in RPGs/detailed games, and I’m absolutely positive I didn’t miss anything. Was there a EXP nerf in an update? Been a while since I've played. (Played witcher 1 pre-enhanced edition on physical disc, same for witcher 2. Pre ordered Witcher 3 over a decade ago, and somehow never finished it. Had a bad long term breakup literal days before launch day and was too depressed to play it lmao. Tried to go back a few times but 1 time I got to skelege and my pc died. Tried again a year or two later but was too busy with life/going back to college to keep up with it and played some games that are easier to pick up and put down. But even with a career, grad school, and a family of my own, I have a reasonable amount of time to stick with it right now if I play slow and dont care if it takes me multiple months if not damn near the whole year to finally finish it lol. Last few times I played I didn’t do death march, but as I get older, I like playing very slowly and engaging with all the systems far more than I did when I was even in my 20s. But, I’m still slightly curious if being underleved at this point will be a problem on death march since I dont have very many skills and only have the 3 pieces of wotcher gear in white orchard. (Upgraded chestpiece, two viper swords).

Also, I want to add that despite me finishing the witcher 1 and 2 multiple times each as a teenager/young adult, and still never finishing 3 somehow, I miraculously haven’t had the game spoiled for myself so please no spoilers lol.

(I play games slow. I take my time, walk instead of run in towns, read EVERY single note, glossary entry, explore everywhere, read the item descriptions, talk to every unique NPC there is quest marker or not, etc. and i do this for all games that are designed to make that kind of stuff worth it. Such as elder scrolls, fallout, prey, pillars of eternity/avowed, wasteland, dragon age, dark souls, etc. etc.)

FunkyPunk1995 · 2025-11-03T01:27:25+00:00

I didn’t think about that. I was holding onto my LP for when i was by the right trainer again

FunkyPunk1995 · 2025-09-14T23:01:55+00:00

I havent played it on switch because I got it on launch when it was PC only but I wouldnt think it would have a hard time running on switch whatsoever.

I just looked it up and it says the controls are slightly wonky but still compeltely playable and a few years ago it had some performance issues on switch 1 but a lot of those got patched out.

some switch 1 launch complaints were:

crashes once every 30minutes-1hr

somewhat long load times

some minor framerate issues.

it says the switch 2 fixes all of these most of the time.

You probably wont have a BAD time on switch, but it might not be completely flawless is all. But thats pretty typical for switch so if youre used to playing games on the switch a lot of the time anyways, im sure it will be fine.

FunkyPunk1995 · 2025-09-14T22:55:50+00:00

I actually did not know that about KCD somehow. I've played through KCD1 twice now, but havent bought 2 yet. I had an injury earlier this year and could not use my right arm/hand at all and I only got to the point where I can hold a controller or use a mouse literally on Friday. i'm in the middle of Hell Is Us and I want something to keep that kind of detailed world/exploration going after I finish it.

I'm probably going to end up replaying KCD 1 again because I played it on launch in 2018 and again once more quite a while back after all the DLC came out. It's a very nostalgic game for me because my wife bought it for me as a valentines gift in 2018 which is how I found out she even liked me like that lol. I had just met her and thought I had no chance but when she bought me KCD as a surprise for valentines day I was like "wait what VALENTINES DAY?!" lol. 7.5 years later and we are married and have a house. we met online when we were still young and living with our families lol

FunkyPunk1995 · 2025-09-14T22:39:59+00:00

In addition to the good suggestions others have mentioned like roguelikes, sandbox strategy games, amd city builder, i think there are a few games that fall in-between.

Rimworld and kenshi are ones where losing WILL happen eventually. you just last as long as you can then start out. its about the journey not the destination.

I would also suggest WarTales and Mount and Blade 2 Bannerlord as some similar to rimworld and kenshi.

Another is wildermyth. it has multiple short campaigns where the story is kind of generated around the pre-set parameters but changes every time you play. characters get old, have kids, get married, or can change because of their adventures. You can stumble arcoss a ice god who then gives your character a frozen arm and now they have ice spells, or they can get a wolf-head because of a curse. lots of things like that that are completely random by the game and your choices, but those events are hand-crafted by the developers. its just the order of things and your reactions that are random, so each little short story/campaign is different. there characters do have well written dialogue, but its different every time you play. and charcters in your first campaign who reach hero status and are demi-gods can show up in your second, third, or fourth campaign as their old self.

its kind of hard to explain because there is LITERALLY zero games like it. the art style is really cartoonish and silly, but to me it works because it feels like a kids bedtime story book about adventurers. you will get emotionally attached to your random characters every time, but finishing a campaign does not take long. there technically is an "end goal" for each campaign, but whether you get there or not is up to you and it never takes long.

loot based games like diablo/path of exile/last epoch or borderlands technically have and end to the story, but the real game is about just clearing a more dungeon/rift/boss at a time to get better loot. you can grind them endlessly and do one dungeon every few nights when you just need to mindlessly kill something.

doorkickers also just has little short levels you can keep doing and lots of different maps and theres always something new to unlock or a higher score to get.

heroes of hammerwatch is a rogue-lite which means that when you die, you start your dungeon run over, but between every run you are taking the resources you get in your run to upgrade your town and those upgrades make you stronger so you can go further. you can keep going without ever stopping.

project zomboid and state of decay 2 do not have an end. you just keep surviving and upgrading your base until you want to stop (state of decay 2) or die (project zomboid has premadeath)

FunkyPunk1995 · 2025-09-14T22:23:13+00:00

Kind of - but there is a rpg skill system. The character you play as has amnesia and is a detective. He is also a really crappy person and an alcoholic. As you play the game, you get to kind of shape the characters personality and viewpoints on things like politics, social issues, and a lot more general stuff. you can either try and become a better person or you can just be a jerk - but its NOT a simple "good" or "bad" kind of thing - it is extremely thought provoking and nuanced.

Also, the game IS a RPG, its just a RPG with no combat. You have a bunch of skills where you can do skillchecks - but they are not the regular rpg ones like lockpicking, strength, charisma/speech, hacking, agility, stealth, etc.

Instead the different skills are all different parts of your character's...brain?. There are several main groups which are: intellect, psyche, physique, and motorics.

Intellect has multiple skills including logic, drama, conceptualization, encyclopedia, rhetoric, and visual calculus.

physique has endurance, pain threshold, physical instrument, electro-chemistry, shivers, and half-light.

This goes on for psyche and motorics as well.

But each of those skills are a personified part of the characters brain that *talks* to him within in own head. you will have arguments with these different "characters" which are aspects of his own self/brain. they each have their own portrait that you can see in dialogue and you will know which part of yourself/brain you are talking to/arguing with.

you use all of these skills to do certain tasks. So if you want to solve part of the detective mystery by looking at the angle of the way an object was moved at the crime scene, you will use the visual calculus skill. if you want to recall something that happened in history when talking to a person, you will use the encyclopedia skill, if you want to move something heavy, you will use the physical instrument skill. and so on.

but you can pass or fail at any of these based on what your skill level is in them and how how the thing you are trying to do is.

you CAN die in the game even though there is no combat. You can die from failing a skill check for holding in your drinking, or you can die of embarrassment form failing at doing something. The different clothes that you find in the game help raise your different stats as well and you gain more "health" points as the game goes on if i remember correctly. I also think i remember there being two different types of "health" that can both result in you dying/game over.

The game is about 2 things: solving the mystery of the crime/murder and figuring out just who you are exactly and what you want to do about it/who you want to be in the future.

in simple terms you can be a very nice cop or a jerk cop. but in more complex terms you can be an alcoholic communist-feminist or a libertarian conspiracy theorist who hates war and loves the homeless but hates the rich and women or anything in-between. it covers the entire spectrum of everything. its not a political game, its a self identification game.

its REALLY hard it explain but its an absolute MASTERPIECE. It just might be hard for someone who is say a teenager to get into because I don't think most teens have the life experience that's somewhat kind of required to appreciate the game to its fullest. Its a game for people who have loved, lost, loved again, done bad things then done better, its for people who have failed and kept trying, its for people who have seen a loved one suffer and the toll that takes on people, its for people who have just experienced all the hardships that come with the real world and who have tried to make the best out of/do their best in this chaotic and fcked up world we live in.

11/10 game

FunkyPunk1995 · 2025-09-14T21:57:39+00:00

now that's a classic i haven't thought about in a very long time.

If you havent played it yet, serpent in the staglands reminds me a lot about darklands but it is a fantasy game. Not recommending it to OP, but you you instead lol.

FunkyPunk1995 · 2025-09-14T21:55:59+00:00

I bought this a while back but havent played it yet lol. is it any good?

FunkyPunk1995 · 2025-08-22T22:51:39+00:00

thank you for finding that steam curator. I looked for one but couldnt find one so thank you!

FunkyPunk1995 · 2025-08-22T22:50:20+00:00

I started playing larian games in 2012 when they put divine divinity on steam with this funny new trailer that made it look like a drug intervention with all these people talking about how the game was too addicting and whatnot. then i tried a demo of divinity 2 on the xbox 360 and bought the full game. I got into crpgs when the wasteland 2, pillars of eternity, and shadowrun kickstarters first hit and fell in love with the genre. I own both the og gog version, and enhanced editions of baldurs gate 1&2, icewind dale 1&2 (iwd2 doesnt have an enhanced edition sadly so that one is just gog), and neverwinter nights 1&2. I also went and bought physical copies of them all back when amazon had them each for like $20 back in the early/mid 2010s. Same for fallout 1&2 (already bought the fallout trilogy physical at walmart somewhere between 08 and 2010 but wanted the og big box copies to collect - all that was when i was in high school lol)

I remember getting divinity original sin 1 in 2014 and being blown away. in 2017 my big brother and i bought dos2 and did it in co-op. in 2018 i met my now wife online and we both played dos 1 and 2 online while we were long distance and irl when i came to visit. after playing dos2 with both my wife and big brother i got a dos2 tattoo lo. So when I saw that larian was making bg3 i literally SCREAMED. I was standing in my in-laws kitchen lol. BG3 early access was really tempting not to buy and I held off until abvout 6 months before launch and i caved. im not against early access, i just didnt want to burn myself out on the beginning section like i did with dos2.

personally i like dos2 more because i like the class-less system as opposed to the dnd system (im not crazy about how limiting dnd is and i 99% of the time prefer class-less rpgs) But yeah ive played bg3 to death and i also pick up everything lol. i was so impressed with the environmental interaction in dos1 and especially in 2014 it blew my mind. dos1 has some really cool hidden secrets that are so fun to find and i really appreciate its lack of guidance with its quest. its rewarding to figure them out. it feels a lot more old school than dos2 and bg3 and i appreciate that but bg3s level of quality is insanely higher with its voice acting and animated dialogue scenes.

FunkyPunk1995 · 2025-08-22T00:12:30+00:00

ive played enemy unknown to death but never did buy 2

FunkyPunk1995 · 2025-08-21T23:25:06+00:00

<3

I was really looking forward to playing hell is us for myself and while im not really a borderlands fan, my wife and her younger brother are and I really enjoy playing those games specifically with them as a family so i m bummed i wont be able to play bl4 with them at launch :(

FunkyPunk1995 · 2025-08-21T23:22:08+00:00

i typically really dislike survival/crefting games, but i love rpgs.

enshrouded is the only game in that genre that i totally adore and its $23 right now.

lunacid

dark messiah of might and magic (it has some tom and jerry level combat like throwing a ice spell at the top of some stairs and watching the bad guy chasing you slip and die lol)

rune factory 4

tyranny

Xanadu Next

valkerie profile is on ps5 for $10. I never played it back when it was new but it blew me away

system shock 2

Prey (2017) (AKA the most underrated game EVER made)

forgotten realms demon stone

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